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Rapido Raises $240 Mn At $3 Bn Valuation To Expand Footprint
Ride-hailing unicorn Rapido has raised $240 Mn (₹2,302 Cr) in a fresh funding round led by existing backer Prosus, with participation from WestBridge Capital, Accel, and other undisclosed investors.
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AI Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In May
The AI narrative in India is currently dominated by scale, with Google breaking ground on its $15 Bn AI Hub in Visakhapatnam and Maharashtra’s landmark AI Policy 2026. Yet, beneath these massive infrastructure bets and policy shifts lay a more fundamental tension.
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Ecommerce To Capture 22% Of India’s Retail GMV By 2031
No longer just about shopping online, India’s ecommerce story is fast becoming a full-scale retail reset.
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Shadowfax’s Q4 Show, India’s D2C 3.0 Moment & More
Shadowfax Delivers Profits In Q4 Shadowfax finally turned profitable in Q4.
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Starbucks, McDonald’s, and Dunkin’ Bank on Bolder Beverages
Younger demographics are experimenting with diverse drink flavors and categories to satisfy both their functional requirements and emotional well-being, according to the Keurig Dr Pepper State of Beverages 2026 Trend Report.
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Jagadeesh Kumar On The Indus Valley’s Playbook For Building A ₹200 Cr Toxin-Free Cookware Brand
What’s cooking in the modern Indian kitchen? Not merely a facelift recipe, but a makeover, at work. What used to be a purely functional buy, like pots, pans, and pressure cookers, picked for durability and price, is now being looked at very differently.
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How Quick Commerce’s $68 Bn GMV Opportunity Is Reshaping Brand Strategy
No longer just a fad, quick commerce is rapidly becoming a deeply embedded consumer habit in India. And the results are beginning to show.
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Inventory Model Pivot? Swiggy Seeks Shareholder Nod To Cap Foreign Ownership
Foodtech major Swiggy has kickstarted the process of becoming an Indian-owned and controlled company (IOCC). As part of this, the foodtech major has sought shareholder approval to amend its articles of association and rejig its board nomination framework.
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Who Will Bell The Consumer AI Cat?
In India, almost every AI conversation today is about sovereign models, semiconductor fabs, GPU clusters, compute capacity, and the race to build the infrastructure powering the country’s AI ambitions.
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New Rules For The Baby Food Aisle
Picture this: It’s 8 AM in a Mumbai apartment. A working couple is juggling a screaming pressure cooker, an endless stream of Slack notifications, and a Zoom call that could have been an email.
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HR Tech’s RoI Focus, Adda247 Axes 200 Jobs & More
The Indian HR Tech Scene HR tech is at a crossroad. After years of just digitising payroll, the industry is now chasing measurable business outcomes, tighter budgets and AI-led intelligence. Can this soft reset finally fix the category’s weak economics?
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Krutrim In A Rut, Fashinza Cofounder Quits & More
What Went Wrong At Krutrim? Ola Krutrim began as one of India’s boldest AI moonshots in 2023. Three years and a unicorn leap later, the homegrown challenger to OpenAI seems to be dumping its promises of building custom chips and sovereign AI models.
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Paytm’s Profitability Milestone Comes With Caveats
For nearly five years after its public listing, the question hanging over One97 Communications, the parent of Paytm, was if India’s biggest listed fintech platform could consistently turn a profit. In FY26, Paytm finally delivered the answer the market had been waiting for.
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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026
Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping up a record ₹41,248 Cr from the public markets. The surge was driven by a combination of macroeconomic tailwinds and regulatory support.
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Swiggy Q4: Food Delivery Beats ‘LPG Crisis’ Fears But Instamart Cools Off
“The industry did take a hit, but we were able to hold on to growth,” Swiggy Food CEO Rohit Kapoor told Inc42 just hours after the company announced its Q4 earnings.
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Optimizing Operations at a Legacy Brand
There is immense power in being “The Place for Ribs” in an era of fleeting food trends, Tony Roma’s CEO Mina Haque said, however their role has transitioned from being the brand's only story to its anchor one as the chain is leveraging that equity to introduce new concepts wit...
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Swiggy Q4: Loss Narrows 26% To ₹800 Cr, Revenue Up 45% YoY
Foodtech major Swiggy narrowed its loss by 26% to ₹800 Cr in Q4 FY26 from ₹1,081 Cr in the same quarter last year. Sequentially, loss declined 24.9% from ₹1,065 Cr. Revenue from operations zoomed 44.7% to ₹6,383 Cr from ₹4,410 Cr in the year-ago period.
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